OpenAI said Tuesday that one of its unreleased artificial intelligence models had solved a mathematical puzzle that has eluded mathematicians for generations, a claim that also drew a fight with rival researchers over credit.

For decades, researchers wondered if the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe fluid flow, break down. OpenAI put thousands of agents on the question.

OpenAI wanted to see if its agents could solve a long unsettled math problem. After gobbling billions of tokens, it found a solution.

UCLA professor and mathematician Terence Tao has sounded the alarm over the accelerating AI race in math happening right now.